Improvement in presser-feet for sewing-machi es



H. G. GOODRICH. Presser-Feet for Sewihgdllachines.

N0. 138,637. Patented May 6,5873.

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HARRY o. eooDRIoH, on cHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSER-FEET FOR SEWlNG-MACHI ES.

July 26, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY O. GoonRIcH, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new, useful, and Improved Presser-Foot for Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a full description, reference being had, to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a plan of the prongs, which receive the presser-foot proper; Fig. 3, a top View; Fig. 4, an end view; Fig. 5, a side view; Fig. 6, a bottom View of my foot.

This foot is designed to be used with a Wheeler 8: Wilson sewing-machine. Its object is to enable the operator to use my tuckmarker in making very narrow tucks; this could not heretofore be successfully done, because the width of the presser-foot was such as to render it impossible to place the marking devices near enough to the needle to make the mark fora narrow tuck. It is desirable to make a straight line that the marking devices be placed opposite to the needle, and at right angles with the line of stitching; they may be placed just forward of the presser-foot, but at this point the cloth is liable to be moved either to the right or left, so that the line made by the marking device will not be straight. In the Wheeler 85 Wilson machine a removable presser-foot is used.

In the drawing, A represents the bed-plate of a machine; B, an end view of my notch and blade tuck-marker, a being the blade, b the notch, operated by a bar which comes in contact with the spring 0. This tuck-marker is not represented in the proper position for use. dis the presser-foot bar, to which, by a suitable shank, are connected e prongs e a), into which the presser-foot slide These parts are made in the usual manner f is a removable foot, which I make consi rably thicker than the foot heretofore in us and also cut away upon one side, (see 2', Fi s. 4 and 6,) so as to allow the parts a b of t tuck-marker to pass under the prong e, brin 'ng them near to the needle n, in which posi n a straight mark can be made for a ver narrow tuck. The foot f has a hole through I hich the needle passes. I

I make this foot open on the op, as shown in Fig. 3, or in skeleton form, a shown in Fig. 5, enabling the operator to obs W the stitching near the needle much be er than with the glass foot, which refracts t e light.

When the tuck-marker is in he proper position for making narrow tuck the parts a b will be under the prong e an opposite the needle n; it is possible to pla them in this position in consequence of th peculiar form andconstructionof my presser- 0t. The parts 8 s of the foot are made to fit. to grooves on the inside of the prongs e e, s that the foot can be easily inserted and re ved; but this feature is not new; nor do I cl im, broadly, a side recess to permit a near approach of sewing-machine attachments t the needle.

What I claim as new is as f lows:

As a new article of manufac re, the hollow metallic presser'foot attach n nt herein de-- scribed, constructed substanti: 11y as and for the purpose specified. g

HARRY C. OODRICH.

Witnesses:

E. A. WEST, O. W. BOND. 

